Apple’s top AI executive, Ruoming Pang, is leaving for Meta, marking a major blow to the iPhone maker’s foundation models team, Bloomberg reported. Pang oversaw the group behind Apple’s large language models and will join Meta’s new superintelligence division.

Ruoming Pang, who currently leads Apple's foundation AI models, is leaving to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Pang's departure underscores challenges in Apple's AI division and Meta's aggressive bid for AI supremacy.

Ruoming Pang previously worked for Google where he led impactful projects that went on to become integral to the search giant’s operations.